defensewinsgames wrote:I believe the QRF thing came about because people complained the best two teams weren't playing in the state championship. Look at the last few years of East vs. West and there were some non-competitive games so people got upset. For example here are some of the scores and results from recent 9 man championships and 11 man A chmapionships:
2008 Hillsboro 46, Williams County 8
2009 Hankinson 27, Parshall/White Shield 12
2010 Wyndmere-Lidgerwood 54, Wells County 12
2011 Napoleon/Gackle-Streeter 50, North Star 42
2012 New Rockford-Sheyenne 40, Divide County 22
2013 Cavalier 54, Westhope/Newburg/Glenburn 6
2014 Cavalier 36, Shiloh Christian 6
2011 Stanley/Powers Lake 42, Linton/HMB 6
2012 Hazen 55, Westhope/Newburg/Glenburn 28
2013 Hazen 20, Milnor/North Sargent 0
2014 Park River/Fordville-Lankin 26, Kildeer 18
2015 Park River/Fordville-Lankin 38, Killdeer 14
2016 Ellendale/Edgeley/Kulm 42, Des Lacs-Burlington 20
There are a few competitive good games sprinkled in there but there are also a lot of lopsided scores. People theorized that if the "top two" teams regardless of geographic location got in that might address the problem. Last year's championship game is a good example of that IMO. Langdon and HCV were clearly the best 2 teams in the state so instead of one losing in the quarter or semi-finals to the other they got to play in the state championship and we had a really close competitive game. Again this all comes down to all you have to do is win the games on your schedule and you continue advancing. Traveling not cool but it is part of the game.
Just for comparison, here are the semi final scores from those champions:
2008- Hillsboro won their semi-final game 38-6
2009- Hankinson won their semi-final game 29-20
2010- Wyndmere won their semi-final game 40-22
2011- Great Championship Game
2012- NRS won their semi-final game 32-8
2013- Cavalier won their semi-final game 62-8
2014- Cavailer won their semi-final game 52-8
2011- Stanley won their semi-final game 28-27 (game should have been the state championship)
2012- Hazen won their semi-final game 14-0
2013- Hazen won their semi-final game 34-8
2014- PRFL won their semi-final game 7-0 (championship game was good IMO and considered an mild upset)
2015- PRFL won their semi-final game 28-9
2016- EEKM won their semi-final game 50-20
While I tend to agree with the cross-state bracketing for the playoffs, I don't feel like we've really been robbed of seeing the best game in the dome as most of the semi final games were blowouts with the one exception being class A in 2011 IMO.